On Jan 23, 2008 4:32 PM, kawayanan <<a href="mailto:kawayanan@gmail.com">kawayanan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">David Brodbeck wrote:<br>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Greg Mischel Smith wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> As the statement says, the coupons will expire 90 days from the date<br>
>> they are issues. Coupons are not being issued yet, I believe they<br>>> are waiting until more converter boxes are available. Nonetheless,<br>>> they should be issued sometime in February and converter boxes
<br>>> should be in stores shortly thereafter. At least one of the<br>>> companies is willing to take a hit and sell the converter box for<br>>> approximately $40 (so it won't cost consumers anything). I'm sorry,
<br>>> but I cannot find the story off hand that talked about it. I also<br>>> think the company is banking on selling its higher end model<br>>> converter boxes which do not qualify for the $40 rebate. And again,
<br>>> their $40 model does qualify.<br>>><br>><br>> If any actually turn up for $40, I plan on buying one with my coupon.<br>> That way I can find out if I can actually get an OTA HD signal before<br>
> I potentially waste $170 on an HD Home Run.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>
<br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br></div></div>I'm interested to see how this goes. Last time I looked at the
<br>governments website, they didn't have any eligible boxes listed. Now<br>they do have boxes listed (<a href="http://www.ntiadtv.gov/cecb_list.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.ntiadtv.gov/cecb_list.cfm</a>), but<br>
still no retailers to be found (at least near me). If they sell for<br>near the $50 the government claims they should, one could get one free<br>or cheap (the actual price remains to be seen however). I would get one<br>
or two. I currently have a pvr-500 and standard analog cable, but<br>wouldn't mind adding OTA to the mix even if its analog. (Think free or<br>cheap alternative to the hdhomerun or pcHDTV if your like me and don't
<br>yet have a HD TV). What I really want to see is what the hardware is.<br>I assume that this thing basically need the hardware of a digital tuner<br>and then a converter to composite/S-vid/coax. I would love to see a
<br>hardware hack to make one usable as a digital tuner (bypassing the<br>conversion to composite/S-vid/coax). Yes I'm cheap, but I can't<br>convince myself to spend the money for a hdhomerun (or similar) to get a
<br>digital version (plus the additional sub-channels) of channels I<br>currently get with my pvr-500.<br><font color="#888888"><br>kawayanan<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________
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</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>I cant wait to get one as i still have a few SDTV's and the antenna signal for analog is horrible. But the HDTV puls 100% signal strength for digital. So the SD picture will not have all the 'snow' on the picture.
<br><br>Mitchell<br>